Andre, As the vaudevillian's used to say"I got a thousand of em" I'll see
if I can stumble across some more for your particular region.
Gary Carmichael
In a message dated 7/14/2012 10:58:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Gary:
Wow, that's an excellent resource tool for researching the Applachians!
Thanks. I probably do NOT need to spend time there... but like I said
earlier: Appalachian coal mining railroads are very interesting. For me, the
Thurmond area and surrounding branches were EXCELLENT.
My real area of interest coal ming was the coal mining railroads of
Sebastian County, Arkansas, the earlier the better. That area first began to
be
mined and shipped by rail in the late 1880's. Just wasn't much photography
going on in my region... ever. Very hard to find photos. For that
matter, it's tough to find early era rail photos taken throughout my region.
(Pics of the St.Louis & San Francisco; St.Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern;
Arkansas Central, Midland Valley, Kansas City Pittsburg & Gulf; Choctaw Coal &
Railway, to name a few.)
Thanks again for that link, but I really need to stay out of there. Of
course, it wouldn't hurt to take just a little peek now, would it? :-)
Andre Ming
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Andre, Here's a place to start.
_http://www.coalcampusa.com/_ (http://www.coalcampusa.com/)
Gary Carmichael
In a message dated 7/14/2012 10:42:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes:
Coal mining was indeed brutal... still is. Just a few years ago a miner
was killed in a local mine.
Those are some excellent finds, there, Bill. The Allegheny/Appalachian
railroad's roll in coal mining operations there were/are fascinating.
Sadly, the regional area of my coal mining interest is nowhere NEAR as
recorded as the Alleghenies/Applachians. I'm lucky to find ANY pics at all...
much less scores of documentary type pics as can be found concerning the
Alleghenies/Appalachians.
Andre Ming
